Jems71
Well-Known Member
what is a normal wight gain for little girl rats?
I have two babies approx 6weeks old this is Wednesday and the bigger of the two has gained about 10grams since Sunday.
Sunday Diamond = 81grams today she weighs 91grams maybe 92-93 she was squirming!
The other will not sit still long enough to get weighed but I will keep trying.
Right now I am feeding a mix
I have mixed up some feed consisting of:
Dry rolled oats
Organic puffed brown rice
plain cheerios
3 grain cereal (barley, wheat germ and something else forget I think spelt...)
Dry multi grain pasta and veggie pasta
and mix a small amount of:
dried cranberries and currents
roasted unsalted soy nuts
unsalted sunflower seeds in the shell
roasted unsalted peanuts and walnuts
they also get a feed of veggies daily somthing differnt each day(frozen thawed peas, frozen thawed corn, broccoli, baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, mustard & turnip greens) and bit yogurt cpl times a week with either oatmeal or baby cereal mixed in, and boiled egg once or twice a week and a few pieces of dog kibble a week.
They love the veggies, they eat the rolled oats, puffed brown rice, cheerios sunflower seeds and soy nuts out of the mix and I think they leave the rest...they do like the yogurt, egg and kibble but I try not to feed too much of these.
Soooo...is this weight gain normal? I would imaging when they are babies they grow fast like other animals so maybe this is good gain...I just don't want to over do it or under do it...
I know I should try to get them on a Lab block...I will go looking for some this weekend.
BTW I would also like to say thank you to everyone that has helped me out this past week...you are all awsome!
I have two babies approx 6weeks old this is Wednesday and the bigger of the two has gained about 10grams since Sunday.
Sunday Diamond = 81grams today she weighs 91grams maybe 92-93 she was squirming!
The other will not sit still long enough to get weighed but I will keep trying.
Right now I am feeding a mix
I have mixed up some feed consisting of:
Dry rolled oats
Organic puffed brown rice
plain cheerios
3 grain cereal (barley, wheat germ and something else forget I think spelt...)
Dry multi grain pasta and veggie pasta
and mix a small amount of:
dried cranberries and currents
roasted unsalted soy nuts
unsalted sunflower seeds in the shell
roasted unsalted peanuts and walnuts
they also get a feed of veggies daily somthing differnt each day(frozen thawed peas, frozen thawed corn, broccoli, baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, mustard & turnip greens) and bit yogurt cpl times a week with either oatmeal or baby cereal mixed in, and boiled egg once or twice a week and a few pieces of dog kibble a week.
They love the veggies, they eat the rolled oats, puffed brown rice, cheerios sunflower seeds and soy nuts out of the mix and I think they leave the rest...they do like the yogurt, egg and kibble but I try not to feed too much of these.
Soooo...is this weight gain normal? I would imaging when they are babies they grow fast like other animals so maybe this is good gain...I just don't want to over do it or under do it...
I know I should try to get them on a Lab block...I will go looking for some this weekend.
BTW I would also like to say thank you to everyone that has helped me out this past week...you are all awsome!
